MedwinePwus

MedwinePwus is an onwine information service produced by de United States Nationaw Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer heawf information in Engwish and Spanish.[1]
The site brings togeder information from de Nationaw Library of Medicine (NLM), de Nationaw Institutes of Heawf (NIH), oder U.S. government agencies, and heawf-rewated organizations. There is awso a site optimized for dispway on mobiwe devices, in bof Engwish and Spanish. In 2015, about 400 miwwion peopwe from around de worwd used MedwinePwus.[2] The service is funded by de NLM and is free to users.

MedwinePwus provides encycwopedic information on heawf and drug issues, and provides a directory of medicaw services. MedwinePwus Connect winks patients or providers in ewectronic heawf record (EHR) systems to rewated MedwinePwus information on conditions or medications.

The Nationaw Library of Medicine has wong provided programs and services for professionaw medicaw scientists and heawf care providers, incwuding MEDLINE and de various services dat access it, such as PubMed and Entrez. By de 1990s, more members of de generaw pubwic were using dese services as Internet access became widespread.[4] But nonprofessionaw users couwd benefit from rewiabwe heawf information in a wayperson-accessibwe format.[5][6][7] The Nationaw Library of Medicine introduced MedwinePwus in October 1998, to provide a non-commerciaw onwine service simiwar, for exampwe, to de commerciaw WebMD. In 2010 anoder NCBI service, PubMed Heawf, compwemented MedwinePwus in offering curated consumer heawf information; PubMed Heawf focuses especiawwy on finding information about cwinicaw effectiveness of treatments.[8]

MedwinePwus initiawwy provided 29 heawf topics in Engwish, which expanded to awmost 1000 heawf topics in Engwish and Spanish, pwus winks to heawf information in over 40 wanguages. MedwinePwus was recognized by de Medicaw Library Association for its rowe in providing heawf information, uh-hah-hah-hah.[9] The site scored 84 in de American Customer Satisfaction Index for 2010.[10]

In 2000s, A.D.A.M.'s medicaw book ding was incorporated into MedwinePwus. The "Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine, Inc." is a NASDAQ-traded pubwic company based in Atwanta, Georgia, dat provides consumer heawf information and benefits technowogy products to heawdcare organizations, empwoyers, consumers, and educationaw institutions.